So, to recap: this blog started as a real estate bust blog. Then it morphed into a SCA blog.
Just to clarify, we're still in the SCA, but not really "in" any longer if that makes sense. And unlike my emotional and spiritual state when I wrote the last post, I truly don't care and it's a hassle to go to events now. All dressed up and for what? I also actually don't miss most people. And I dislike immensely that constant self-editing that one does when talking with people in the SCA. It's much worse than the routine polite and occasionally truly PC stuff one does in mundane conversation.
But one must have a hobby, otherwise known as a reason for living.
It is unrealistic to expect that our life partners and children provide this motivation, although they do provide MOST of it.
My avocation has now become Democratic Socialism and movement politics. Ironically, this all started about a year ago via one of our SCA contacts who was a Berner. She encouraged me to show up at a couple of political action, very ineffectual sign-waving events, and that was all it took. Bernie Sanders has always been a hero to me, and when he decided to run I knew I'd vote for him, but I had no clue at the time just how meaningful this would be. I didn't know that my son, James, and a whole generation of young people had decided that "socialist" was no longer a dirty word. I didn't realize that nearly half the Left (really we're the only "Left" as the Liberal Left is more center Right, but I digress) was as disheartened and angry about the way we had been abandoned as I was. And I certainly never believed that my country would elect a bombastic, crude, vulgar, sexist, racist billionaire to the Presidency.
No matter, really, for ME because I was planning on activism under a Clinton presidency. This just makes it more vital and likely, in my opinion, also makes it more likely that a true Left will emerge in the next 2 years and possibly will prevail in 2020. However, it is a tremendously horribly bad situation for vast numbers of my fellow citizens and that worries me. It empowers the racism and sexism that was always there, and I believe that is why some of the worst of these incidents are happening in the areas of the U.S. that voted for Clinton. Because racist/sexist/nativist people live EVERYWHERE, but they're a lot less likely to act out when they think they're a minority. Currently, they don't think that, even though they still ARE. And in areas of the country where they feel most aggrieved by minorities or immigrants or differently-gendered folks, they now feel that they have the right to be the assholes in action that they've always been in their hearts.
Another very odd thing is that the spirituality of my childhood has come back into my life. Some of this is very likely due to the strong Catholic presence in socialist politics, especially with Pope Francis. The Christianity that I was raised with was a very liberal, socialist Christianity and unfortunately that type all but disappeared in the last 40 years. But being around people who believe in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus has brought that tendency back into my life, after an entire adulthood in which my spiritual expression went all the way back to paganism because modern religion was so cold and hard.
So maybe I'll end up writing posts here more often, and maybe not, but as this is the closest thing I have to a journal of my life, it seemed appropriate to at least toss this one up for the future.
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